In this post, I’m going to talk about events in JavaScript. Events are those things that happen on, in and around a web page. They are all over and occur even when you think they aren’t. In short, I’ll be talking about what JavaScript can do when someone clicks something, when a page is loaded, […]

In this post, I’m going to talk about working with functions in PHP. In order to do that though, I think we should first get a working definition of what exactly a function is. Much like in other programming languages, a function in PHP is a section of code that receives input, completes a set […]

In this post, I’m going to talk about archive templates in WordPress. Archive templates have quite a lot of versatility and if you wanted to, you could really drill down and customize large portions of your site. Before we begin though, let’s take a look at the WordPress hierarchy one more time. Reminder: Click the […]

This is where JavaScript really starts to get fun. In this post, I’m going to go over exactly how to use JavaScript methods to access, change and create elements. If you’re a beginner in JavaScript, I suggest you simply read and absorb. After that, head out into the world of the internet and look up […]

For this last section of my PHP series, I’m going to discuss conditional statements and loops in PHP. These two areas truly are at the heart of this programming language, so it’s important to get a solid understanding of what they do and how they work. Conditional Statements In the most basic sense, conditional statements […]

A lot has changed in the past few years when it comes to structuring a web page. HTML is less generic than it used to be and there are new tools to help offer much more meaning to our pages. There are fewer workarounds and more answers and logical ways of doing things than ever […]

There’s this thing out there that’s sort of tricky to understand. It’s called the DOM, or Document Object Model. It’s one of those things where if you don’t grasp it early on, your days of JavaScript programming will either be very short, at the very worst, or much more difficult than they need to be, […]

In PHP, operators are used to manipulate or perform operations on variables and values. And just like other programming languages, there are quite a few operators. These operators can be grouped under specific headings to help keep things a bit more organized. I’ll go over each group below. Before I begin though, I thought I’d […]

If you’ve been reading any of my posts, you may have taken notice that I refer to courses I’ve taken or am currently taking. At this point in my training, that number of courses is growing. I’ve been thinking lately – what is this website going to look like in a year? How many posts […]

In this post, I’m going to cover a few aspects of static page templates, blog post templates, comment templates along with post formats. Setting these types of templates up is actually a lot of fun. There is a fair amount of flexibility when it comes to how far you can drill down with specificity inside […]

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